áncora

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From Old Galician-Portuguese ancora (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin ancora, a probable borrowing from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkura). Cognate with Portuguese âncora, Spanish ancla.

• IPA^(key): [ˈaŋkʊɾɐ]

áncora f (plural áncoras)

1. (nautical) anchor
   • 1433, Ángel Rodríguez González & José Armas Castro (eds.), Minutario notarial de Pontevedra (1433-1435). Santiago de Compostela: Consello da Cultura Galega, page 53:

     con estes aparellos seguintes, conven a saber: tres ancoras et hũu arpeo de ferro con seus eixos et hũa gindaresa de fio de canavo

     with the following gear, that is: three anchors and one grappling hook of iron, with their windlasses, and a hawser made of hemp

• “ancora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval, SLI - ILGA 2006–2022.
• “ancora” in Xavier Varela Barreiro & Xavier Gómez Guinovart: Corpus Xelmírez - Corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval. SLI / Grupo TALG / ILG, 2006–2018.
• “ancora” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “áncora” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “áncora” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from Latin ancora. Doublet of ancla.

• IPA^(key): /ˈankoɾa/ [ˈãŋ.ko.ɾa]
• Rhymes: -ankoɾa
• Syllabification: án‧co‧ra

áncora f (plural áncoras)

1. (nautical) anchor

   Synonym: ancla

• Feminine nouns beginning with stressed /ˈa/ like this one regularly take the singular articles el and un, usually reserved for masculine nouns.

  el áncora, un áncora

• They maintain the usual feminine singular articles la and una if an adjective intervenes between the article and the noun.

• “áncora”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014